"The Breath of the Gods" is a novel written by Bernard Werber. His style of writing mixes different literary genres, notably the saga, the science fiction of the inter-war years, and tracts of philosophy. In most of his novels, Werber uses the same form of construction, alternating informative articles in the style of an encyclopaedia and normal prose. The articles define or enlarge upon the ideas in the main text. Also there are connections between his novels, and recurrent themes like l'Arbre des Possibles (The Tree of Possibilities), of Isidore Katzenberg, or even the novel Nous les dieux, which treats the ideas first presented in the short story L’École des jeunes dieux (The School of the Young Gods). In the eight novels, Werber describes various authors. We are presented with an author who, at the end of his life, writes a last book which makes sense of his previous work...